It's a party of hope for America. Lincoln gave Americans hope through equal opportunities for all.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling

Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.